Tag: pidgin

I am using pidgin as chat client for both yahoo and gtalk. Recently, yahoo has stopped support for older versions of their own yahoo messenger clients. ( anything less than version 7.5 fails ) . It also means that most of the third party clients such as pidgin has problems in login.

On my ubuntu 9.04, the default pidgin version is 2.5.5. You can work around the yahoo login problem as shown below.

Open Accounts-> Manage accounts.

Click on the account you want to fix

Click on modify.

Click on advanced tab.

The pager server is set to scs.msg.yahoo.com

Change it to cs101.msg.mud.yahoo.com

Click on Save

Restart pidgin

It seems yahoo is rolling out a new authentication protocol. Let us wait for a new pidgin update

Update:

Pidgin 2.5.7 which fixes the yahoo login problem is out. You can install it as given below.

The PPA contains new pidgin releases for other versions of ubuntu ( dapper gutsy, hardy ,intrepid and karmic) You can just replace jaunty in sources.list line indicating this ppa with you distro and enjoy yahoo messenger on pidgin.